Sourcing R script over HTTPS

Question

Is there some way to source an R script from the web?

e.g. source(\'http://github.com/project/R/file.r\')

Reason: I currently have a project tha

Answer 1

This is working for me on windows:

library(RCurl)
# load functions and scripts from github ----------------------------
fn1 <- getURL("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SanjitNarwekar/Advanced-R-Programming/master/fn_factorial_loop.R", ssl.verifypeer = FALSE)
eval(parse(text = fn1))